All Too Human: Bacon, Freud and a Century of Painting Life at Tate Britain, 28th February to 27th August 2018

Billed as a landmark exhibition, All Too Human showcases how some of Britain’s most celebrated artists from Sickert and Spencer, via Auerbach and Kossoff, to Freud and Bacon, and newer female artists like Paula Rego and Jenny Saville, have captured life’s most intense experiences in paint. The trouble is that while there are many fine individual paintings on display, the thematic coherence of this show completely disappears from view under the sheer number of exhibits.